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I didn't break up with fly fishing

Ticks, waist deep mud and nymphing rigs

by Amanda Monthei - Friday, Jul 17th, 2015

Photo: Jess McGlothlin / Jess McGlothlin Media

In February, I sat on the couch opposite of my boyfriend and muttered something vaguely resembling “This just doesn’t feel right. You know what I mean? I don’t know. You know?”

In the days that followed, through simultaneous feelings of regret and relief, I asked myself whether I had made the right move — would I ever find someone I feel even remotely as comfortable with as I felt with him? Would I ever feel okay seeing him with someone else? Would I ever be able to set up a nymphing rig without him?

Review: Orvis Access Wading Boot

Notes from time in the field with Orvis' new workhorse boot

by Paul Snyder - Thursday, Jul 16th, 2015

When it comes to wading boots, I think my requirements are tough to execute well and with reasonable affordability. I’m almost never in a drift boat and I’m usually not standing in the genteel flats at Harriman on the Henry’s Fork. I need boots that are light, tough in the right places, fit great, and will last for at least 150 days of intensive use. I’m also a size 12B and have fairly high arches. Oh, genetics.

Simms finally bringing wet wading boots, loads more, to market

Simms outs its new 2015-16 product additions

by Chad Shmukler - Tuesday, Jul 14th, 2015

Photo: Chad Shmukler

I've been pissing and moaning for years about the lack of a wet-wading dedicated boot on the market. Given the vast swaths of anglers that ditch their waders as soon as the weather and water get warm enough, it has long seemed like a market vacancy in need of filling. Yet we've been told otherwise — there's no demand, they won't sell, no one wants them — in conversations with almost every wading boot manufacturer out there (including Simms). But thankfully, either the market has changed or Simms is trying to change it.

RIO announces army of new lines, products for 2016

New lines, leaders, tippet and other products from RIO

by Chad Shmukler - Thursday, Jul 9th, 2015

Striper anglers will have three new InTouch striper lines to choose from (photo: Chad Shmukler).

Last week RIO introduced its new InTouch Single Hand Spey line as the first addition to its 2016 lineup. Today, RIO has followed up by announcing a bevy of other new lines and other products, which will join the InTouch Single Hand spey line in RIO's refreshed and seemingly ever-expanding list of offerings.

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